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Altair Semiconductor, a leading provider of LTE chipsets, and Ecrio, the leading provider of LTE real time communications client software, announced that Altair’s ALT1160 chipset – along with Ecrio’s MCCS VoLTE solution – have been certified for deployment on KDDI’s Japanese network.

This VoLTE certification was based on extensive interoperability, conformance and performance testing to ensure rapid deployment of new IoT voice services.

Altair’s ALT1160 is a CAT-1 chipset designed specifically for IoT and M2M applications, such as wearables, vehicle telematics, smart meters and security applications. The ALT1160 features best-in-class power consumption, extending battery life beyond 10 years, and offers unique features such as enhanced security and a customizable application layer.

Based on the mature and patented FlexIMS™ architecture, Ecrio’s MCCS VoLTE solution enables a broad range of voice services on LTE enabled devices. It is standards compliant and has been certified and deployed globally on a variety of device types on Carrier Networks.

“This VoLTE certification is an important milestone for KDDI, as it enables our customers to add differentiated voice services on CAT-1 enabled IoT devices in Japan,” said Hiroshi Tsuji, General Manager at KDDI. “We are looking forward to a continued partnership with Altair and Ecrio.”

“This long-time partnership with KDDI and Ecrio will accelerate the introduction of IoT voice services in high value industrial and consumer use cases,” said Eran Eshed, Co-founder and VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Altair.

“We are pleased to have been awarded this certification by KDDI and are committed to supporting their business as they roll out advanced IoT services in the Japan market.”

“We are pleased to continue our partnership with KDDI and Altair to deliver VoLTE solutions across LTE device categories,” said Michel Gannage, Founder and CEO of Ecrio.